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tibiashaolin
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Can someone explain what the F*** happened to me?
#7656575 - 11/19/07 08:02 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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OK heres the intro: almost exactly 1 year ago, i smoked weed for the first time. My friend said it was some pretty rad montreal shit, and i inspected it and it had nothing more than weed. I smoked a joint and did some bong hits, and i really enjoyed it, best time of my life. What concerns me is the long-term affects it has had on me, when compared to my pre-drug life. Firstly, the high kind of stayed with me, i mean like i'm zoned out, not really experiencing anything, and time passes faster. After i smoked, my memory was totally f****** for 3 days, and from that time on, i have a harder time recalling and keeping memories than i had before. I used to cry a lot (over emotional movies etc...) but its harder to do that too! Well, on the contrary, i should be pissed about this "brain damage", but it came with some massive benefits. I have been able to keep a cooler head, and i had been somewhat struggling in school for the past 4 years, but right after i smoked my marks all rose by an average of 15%, and im not really doing anything more differently. For example: Grade 9 academic math - failed Grade 10 Academic math - finished with 58% <Smoked Herb> - Finished math with 85% Current year grade 12 academic math mark - 91%
WTF?? ALL of my marks improved, and i finished on the honor roll last year. This year i'm still smoking and im getting like 85% average, so for next year i got accepted to a really good university commerce program.
Can someone please attempt to explain WTF happened to me?!
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opensaysme
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Re: Can someone explain what the F*** happened to me? [Re: tibiashaolin]
#7656589 - 11/19/07 08:05 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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You've been healed.
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holland35
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Re: Can someone explain what the F*** happened to me? [Re: opensaysme]
#7656675 - 11/19/07 08:27 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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not only would i agree with the post above me, but the same thing happened to me school wise. had a 3.0 in grade 11 and grade 12, a 3.3, and now as a freshman in college, I'm pullin a 3.6, all thanks to my friend, Mary Jane.
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Re: Can someone explain what the F*** happened to me? [Re: holland35]
#7656695 - 11/19/07 08:32 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Some of the symptoms you described are similar to the symptoms experienced when one has depersonalization disorder.
Weed can trigger depersonalization disorder, and among all the drug-induced cases of DPD, marijuana ranked as the number one cause.
Here's a site worth looking into: www.dpselfhelp.com
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Re: Can someone explain what the F*** happened to me? [Re: Grylls]
#7656946 - 11/19/07 09:58 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Grylls said: Some of the symptoms you described are similar to the symptoms experienced when one has depersonalization disorder.
Weed can trigger depersonalization disorder, and among all the drug-induced cases of DPD, marijuana ranked as the number one cause.
Here's a site worth looking into: www.dpselfhelp.com
That is very interesting but how may I ask do you see any of the symptoms of DPD in Tibs post?
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monstermush
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Re: Can someone explain what the F*** happened to me? [Re: robanero]
#7656969 - 11/19/07 10:06 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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dude i was forced to quit smoking and my grades dropped.
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igwna
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Re: Can someone explain what the F*** happened to me? [Re: monstermush]
#7657014 - 11/19/07 10:23 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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quite honestly i think i have gone through the same thing.
athough it happened to me like 2 years ago. i went through Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Panic Disorder.
got through that and learned to cope. thats what they told me it was (however i bugged out a lot more and my grades sort of suffered)
but i know what its like to feel like you're living in a dream.. i had that for a long time and you sort of get used to it. and i'm pretty sure it goes away or you start to think its the norm.
it wasn't the first time i smoked though. i don't know about depersonalization disorder. i'm about to go read about it.
good luck man. hope my experiences helped..
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Re: Can someone explain what the F*** happened to me? [Re: igwna]
#7657174 - 11/19/07 11:15 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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depersonalization = less enviromental noise
Bring it on.
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Re: Can someone explain what the F*** happened to me? [Re: Glacier Creek]
#7657205 - 11/19/07 11:30 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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i used to smoke a little if I had problems with math or physics it would help the little shift in perception, the extra delay, of seeing double, or maybe thinking double, was just eenough to highlight the right part of the question to focus on. most academic questions are not hard to answer, they are hard to understand - i.e. which 2 or 3 things are being dealt with. some detatchment helps, the weed let time/space tunnel out a bit - a kind of detatchment. same regards emotional memory. detatchment. meditation will produce simmilar detachment and thinking double.
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Pootmaster
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Re: Can someone explain what the F*** happened to me? [Re: redgreenvines]
#7657380 - 11/20/07 12:38 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Haha that's really cool that that happens to you, man! Weed's just made my get lower grades in school... going to school high, completely forgetting to do homework/studying, tired all the time.... I'm not dissing on weed, it's my all-time favorite drug, but it hasn't helped much with school :\
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Re: Can someone explain what the F*** happened to me? [Re: Pootmaster]
#7657393 - 11/20/07 12:41 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Funny thing is, weed has made me MUCH less paranoid, which is kind of a contradiction. When I'm on it I get pretty paranoid, but when I'm sober I'm -much- more relaxed and chill about things.
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boletusoftruth
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Re: Can someone explain what the F*** happened to me? [Re: Pootmaster]
#7659120 - 11/20/07 01:43 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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but i know what its like to feel like you're living in a dream.. i had that for a long time and you sort of get used to it. and i'm pretty sure it goes away or you start to think its the norm.
I know exactly what you mean. For like a few months my entire life would just be a constant, what the fuck? Where did the time go? What was I just doing? Everything seemed surreal. Kind of like living in a dream like you said. Its stopped now, or I'm used to it...
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Re: Can someone explain what the F*** happened to me? [Re: boletusoftruth]
#7660440 - 11/20/07 07:46 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Thats what weed seems to do to me too... it depersonalizes me, makes me double think myself, makes me kinda unresponsive to the world around me even though on the inside i'm thinkin wtf! I like everybody here and wanna talk i just don't know what to say or how to think. It used to be a lot worse, but now I can usually deal with it and its not as big of an issue.
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tibiashaolin
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Re: Can someone explain what the F*** happened to me? [Re: boletusoftruth]
#7660495 - 11/20/07 08:06 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I know exactly what you mean. For like a few months my entire life would just be a constant, what the fuck? Where did the time go? What was I just doing? Everything seemed surreal. Kind of like living in a dream like you said. Its stopped now, or I'm used to it...
YEAH exactly that.
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Re: Can someone explain what the F*** happened to me? [Re: GigaHurtz1]
#7660795 - 11/20/07 09:40 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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GigaHurtz1 said: Thats what weed seems to do to me too... it depersonalizes me, makes me double think myself, makes me kinda unresponsive to the world around me even though on the inside i'm thinkin wtf! I like everybody here and wanna talk i just don't know what to say or how to think. It used to be a lot worse, but now I can usually deal with it and its not as big of an issue.
Thats me, too.
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Spooglywoogly
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Re: Can someone explain what the F*** happened to me? [Re: GigaHurtz1]
#7664719 - 11/21/07 08:16 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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GigaHurtz1 said: Thats what weed seems to do to me too... it depersonalizes me, makes me double think myself, makes me kinda unresponsive to the world around me even though on the inside i'm thinkin wtf! I like everybody here and wanna talk i just don't know what to say or how to think. It used to be a lot worse, but now I can usually deal with it and its not as big of an issue.
same here.
after a break of 3 years (i think) ive recently been experimenting smoking weed again. while i find hash/resin is fine and gentle to smoke, skunk/bud seems to knock me for 6 and i go right back to a milder state of disconnection. almost exactly as u described.
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boletusoftruth
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Re: Can someone explain what the F*** happened to me? [Re: Spooglywoogly]
#7667285 - 11/22/07 03:16 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Is this something all people who smoke have happen to them? Or is it just some. A fair few of us are all relating to this happening to us at some point.
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igwna
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Re: Can someone explain what the F*** happened to me? [Re: boletusoftruth]
#7667641 - 11/22/07 05:45 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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i think its pretty common.. you get used to feeling another way so much that this perception change happens. it doesnt take long of normal life for the perception to change back... or you get used to the new perception and adapt to it..
i feel its fair to say most people will experience perception changes due to drugs, specificially marijuana.
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Edited by igwna (11/22/07 05:46 PM)
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boletusoftruth
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Re: Can someone explain what the F*** happened to me? [Re: igwna]
#7667768 - 11/22/07 06:27 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Ya I'm fine with it now. Either it permanently changed and it's become the norm, or I'm back to normal. I suppose there isn't really a way to tell. Unless I stopped for a few weeks to see if my perception changed back to "normal"?
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Re: Can someone explain what the F*** happened to me? [Re: boletusoftruth]
#7667952 - 11/22/07 07:27 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Yea if you stop for a couple weeks you'll definately notice everything is somewhat "clearer", like the fog has been lifted. It's just when you smoke you get used to that fog until you don't even see it.
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